Contribute Fridays: What Changes Do You Plan to Make in 2010?
What Changes Do You Plan to Make in 2010?
I haven’t thought too much about the New Year, but it seems it’s fast approaching. Personally, I like where my business is right at the moment, and I hope it continues the same level of busy-ness. I hope to take a few free online classes and go through the PHP book I won a few backs when Nikita leaves on vacation to Russia. (So I’ll have plenty of free time for that 2 weeks). It’s good to spend some serious time learning new things, at least once a year, ya know?
- Do you plan to learn a new programming language?
- Start freelancing full-time?
- Expanding your business?
- Niche?
- Go back to school?
What are your 2010 plans for your freelancing, web design or development skills?
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I just bought a book on CodeIgniter. I’ll be developing a project management application with it. The goal is to put enough features in it and round it out enough to offer it online.
I’m already freelancing full-time, so there’s not much expansion there.
I’m also working on my first Magento site, which is pretty interesting. Open-source ecommerce platform in PHP.
I’m planning on more schooling, building my personal website, and possibly starting some part-time freelancing.
For programming I want to get a better grasp of JavaScript, and maybe start into some ColdFusion. I have a whole year, and tons to accomplish!
Nice question and according to me the toughest one to answer…
I plan to:
1. Freelance full-time
2. Expand my business
3. Learn atleast the foundations of Ruby on Rails
I think I’d really like to learn proper ASP.NET development and not the rubbish that we were taught this year. I’d also like to do well in my exams and hopefully get a work placement/internship before returning to my final year of uni
@Amber I think I may have said this already, probably on goodreads, but I highly recommend Beginning PHP and MYSQL from novice to professional.
@Jason good luck with the codeigniter app. I’ve been playing around with codeigniter recently and it seems like quite a nice framework.
1. I know php/mysql well enough. Tricks with new technology because browsers capability changes all the time.
2. Own a business, run a business online store is what I do full time.
3. Expanding please, who would say no!. Let us all wish this for the New Year!
4. Niche, hard to say how about always evolving.
5. Actually self taught myself as far as web development. Since you follow me Amber you probably know I listen to all kinds of music because I actually went to college for Music Theory/Business was excellent. So far so good.
@Jason Let me know how the Magento development goes…have heard lots of different opinions on it
@Megan and @Sonali Sounds like you have a lot to do, good luck!
@Colin Yea I saw your recommendation for it on Goodreads, but I won the Beginners book in a contest for free…so I might as well read it
@Mike Since you love music, you should think about niching yourself into the music business with your programming
I will be taking some time to learn the basic functions of Photoshop as well as learning how to build websites through Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I have a few tutorial blogs that I follow and I will be delving into them a lot over the next few months. I have several clients requesting web design, so I’m in dire need of upgrading my skills.
There are also a few processes and strategies that I need to create for client consultation on building personal brands and online marketing.
@Antwon If you use Dreamweaver, make sure you never use the design view, code only. It will insert terrible unsemantic code and mess everything up.
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